CIPD finds hiring intentions strong but TUC warns over ‘involuntary’ temps
12 August 2013
Employment growth should continue during the third quarter of 2013, reveals the newly released summer edition of the CIPD/SuccessFactors Labour Market Outlook.
Mon, 12 Aug 2013Employment growth should continue during the third quarter of 2013, reveals the newly released summer edition of the CIPD/SuccessFactors Labour Market Outlook.
The news comes on the same day the TUC warns that the number of people doing temporary jobs because they cannot find permanent work keeps rising.
The Chartered Institute of Personnel & Development’s survey of 1,000 HR professionals, available online, records a net employment balance of +14%, up from +9% in the spring survey.
This is calculated by deducting the number of employers expecting to cut staff levels from the number looking to hire more people. This is the sixth consecutive quarter of positive balance.
There is stark contract between public and private sectors, where net balances stand at -25% and +26% respectively, although both have moved in the right direction, by six and five percentage points respectively.
Trades Union Congress analysis of Office for National Statistics data shows that between December 2010 and December 2012, the 89,000 rise in the number of temporary workers made up nearly half the total rise of employment.
Noting that between 2005 and 2012, the number of workers who were in temporary roles because they could not find permanent work more than doubled to 655,000, TUC general secretary Frances O’Grady says: “The fact that casualised labour continues to grow even during this ‘so-called’ recovery suggests that the labour market is far more fragile than headline figures suggest.”
The news comes on the same day the TUC warns that the number of people doing temporary jobs because they cannot find permanent work keeps rising.
The Chartered Institute of Personnel & Development’s survey of 1,000 HR professionals, available online, records a net employment balance of +14%, up from +9% in the spring survey.
This is calculated by deducting the number of employers expecting to cut staff levels from the number looking to hire more people. This is the sixth consecutive quarter of positive balance.
There is stark contract between public and private sectors, where net balances stand at -25% and +26% respectively, although both have moved in the right direction, by six and five percentage points respectively.
Trades Union Congress analysis of Office for National Statistics data shows that between December 2010 and December 2012, the 89,000 rise in the number of temporary workers made up nearly half the total rise of employment.
Noting that between 2005 and 2012, the number of workers who were in temporary roles because they could not find permanent work more than doubled to 655,000, TUC general secretary Frances O’Grady says: “The fact that casualised labour continues to grow even during this ‘so-called’ recovery suggests that the labour market is far more fragile than headline figures suggest.”
- The Morgan McKinley London Employment Monitor shows jobs availability in the City fell by 9% in July 2013, with a total of 7,056 vacancies on offer. The professional recruiter says this constitutes a 37% year-on-year drop, but notes that summer hiring volumes are always lower than those from September onwards.
